Agreed, it is a rather strange acronym.  Maybe somebody in ACM likes the 
Muppets (MASPEGHI sounds suspiciously like "Miss Piggy").  <smile>

Rex 

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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf 
Of John Gilmore
Sent: Monday, August 11, 2014 11:20 AM
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Subject: Re: MASPEGH? (was new JVM based language)

It is sometimes MASPHEGI, as in the ACM proceedings I cited,

Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on MechAnisms for SPEcialization,
Generalization and inHerItance.

With or without the terminal 'I' it is an abomination.  I am delighted
that google knows little about it, but there are circles in which it
is now too common.  (There may of course be an inside, coterie joke
embedded in it:  The high artificiality of the choice of 'H' and the
second 'I' from 'inheritance'  for inclusion in an acronym is
suspicious.)

John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA

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